Effective Life 2006/3


Commonwealth of Australia

This Legislative Instrument has been repealed by Treasury (Spent and Redundant Instruments) Repeal Regulation 2013.

Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

I, BRUCE WILLIAM QUIGLEY, First Assistant Commissioner, Office of the Chief Tax Counsel, make this Determination under subsection 40-100(1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997.

1 Name of Determination

This Determination is the Income Tax (Effective Life of Depreciating Assets) Amendment Determination 2006 (No. 3).

2 Commencement

This Determination commences on 1 July 2006, immediately after the commencement of the Income Tax (Effective Life of Depreciating Assets) Amendment Determination 2006 (No. 2).

3 Amendment of Income Tax (Effective Life of Depreciating Assets) Determination 2001

Schedule 1 amends the Income Tax (Effective Life of Depreciating Assets) Determination 2001.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(section 3)

[1] Table A, industry category AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY and FISHING (01110 to 05290), sub-category Agriculture (01110 to 01990), entry relating to Fruit growers' plant

Omit

     Hail netting:        
         Black (UV inhibited) 10     1 Jan 2001
         White or clear 5     1 Jan 2001
         Support poles, wires, high tensile cables 40     1 Jan 2001

[2] Table A, industry category AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY and FISHING (01110 to 05290), sub-category Agriculture (01110 to 01990)

Omit

Glass houses (metal-framed) 50     1 Jan 2001
Greenhouse 'igloo' components:      
     Galvanised piping frames 20     1 Jan 2001
     Fibreglass covering, electric fans and misted water spray equipment 6 ⅔     1 Jan 2001

[3] Table A, industry category AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY and FISHING (01110 to 05290), before sub-category Agriculture (01110 to 01990)

Insert

Environmental control structures (including glasshouses, hothouses, germination rooms, plastic clad tunnels and igloos) 20  *  1 Jul 2006
Protective structures (including shade houses and netting constructions) 20  *  1 Jul 2006

[4] Table A, industry category AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY and FISHING (01110 to 05290), after sub-category Agriculture (01110 to 01990)

Insert

Nursery and floriculture production
(01110 to 01150)
Chemical spraying assets:      
     Generally (including broad acre trailed or linkage boom and utility) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
Environmental control assets:      
     Boilers (including piping) 20  *  1 Jul 2006
     Control systems 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Evaporative coolers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Heating assets 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Instruments (including sensors) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Retractable screens 8  *  1 Jul 2006
     Ventilation fans 5  *  1 Jul 2006
Fertigation system assets (incorporating control systems, pumps and tanks) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
General assets:      
     Bins and pallets 5  *  1 Jul 2006
     Fertiliser spreaders 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Fumigation assets 5  *  1 Jul 2006
     Pasteurisation assets:      
         Pasteurisation rooms 20  *  1 Jul 2006
         Steam boilers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Racks 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Ride on mowers 5  *  1 Jul 2006
     Refrigeration assets:      
         Insulation panels used in cool rooms 40  *  1 Jul 2006
         Refrigeration generally 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Trailers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Trolleys 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Weed mats 5  *  1 Jul 2006
Harvesting assets:      
     Bed lifters and diggers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Tree spades 15  *  1 Jul 2006
Packaging assets:      
     Deleafers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Bunching and bundling machines 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Grading machines 15  *  1 Jul 2006
Planting assets:      
     Benches and tables 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Conveyors 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Dibblers and seeders 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Hoppers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Pot, punnet and tray dispensers 12  *  1 Jul 2006
     Potting machines (including pot and bag fillers) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Soil elevators 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Soil mixers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Transplanters (plugs and seedlings) 8  *  1 Jul 2006
     Tray and punnet fillers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Tray washers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Vermiculite dispensers and coverers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
Propagation assets:      
     Heated propagators 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Seedling and punnet trays, reusable 3  *  1 Jul 2006
Turf growing assets:      
     Chemical spraying assets:      
         Generally (including broad acre trailed or linkage boom and utility) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Fertiliser spreaders 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Field top makers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Land planes 25  *  1 Jul 2006
     Line planters 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Mowers (including reel and rotary mowers) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Net layers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Power harrows 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Roll layers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Soil aerators 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Trailers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Turf harvesters (including pedestrian and tractor mounted harvesters) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Turf rollers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Turf seeders 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Turf vacuums 10  *  1 Jul 2006

[5] Table A, industry category AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY and FISHING (01110 to 05290), sub-category Agriculture (01110 to 01990)

Omit

Sheep farming plant:      
     Shearing machines 13 ⅓     1 Jan 2001
     Shearing stands (demountable) 10     1 Jan 2001
     Sheep dips (concrete) 50     1 Jan 2001
     Woolsheds:      
         With brick, stone or concrete walls 66 ⅔     1 Jan 2001
         Wood or iron walls 50     1 Jan 2001

[6] Table A, industry category AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY and FISHING (01110 to 05290), after sub-category Nursery and floriculture production (01110 to 01150)

Insert

Sheep, beef cattle and grain farming and other crop growing
(01410 to 01590)
Grain, cotton, peanut and rice assets:      
     Chemical spraying assets:      
         Generally (including broad acre trailed or linkage boom and utility) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Self-propelled 8  *  1 Jul 2006
     General assets:      
         Aeration assets:      
             Controllers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
             Kits 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Dryers 20  *  1 Jul 2006
         Moisture meters 5  *  1 Jul 2006
         Mulchers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Peanut pre-cleaners 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Slashers 7  *  1 Jul 2006
     Harvesting assets:      
         Boll buggies 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Chaser bins 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Field bins 20  *  1 Jul 2006
         Fuel trailers 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Module builders 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Module tarpaulins 5  *  1 Jul 2006
         Peanut diggers (including peanut pullers) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Precision farming assets (including GPS, controllers, lightbars, variable rate technology assets) (excluding hydraulic automated steering) 5  *  1 Jul 2006
     Seeding and fertilizing assets:      
         Fertilizer spreaders (including linkage and trailed) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Planters (including bar, box, combined seeders, precision planters and row crop planters) 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Seed and fertilizer bins 15  *  1 Jul 2006
     Tillage assets:      
         Generally 15  *  1 Jul 2006
         Harrows 5  *  1 Jul 2006
         Laser controlled scraping assets:      
             Transmitters 7  *  1 Jul 2006
             Buckets 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Rippers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
Sheep farming assets:        
Crutching machines, portable type 10  *  1 Jul 2006
Dipping and spraying assets for parasite control:      
     Jet spray system assets (including the race or handler dedicated to the jet spray system) 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Mobile plunge dips 5  *  1 Jul 2006
Feeders (including grain feeders, oat feeders, hay feeders) 15  *  1 Jul 2006
Footbaths 10  *  1 Jul 2006
Instruments for measuring wool fibre fineness, laser type 10  *  1 Jul 2006
Instruments for measuring backfat or eye muscle or detecting pregnancy, ultrasound type (incorporating probe and monitor) 5  *  1 Jul 2006
Sheep handling assets (including autodrafter, conveyor, cradle, crate, crutching trailer, elevator, ewe lifter, handler, hydraulic lift, rollover unit, shearing table, weigh crate, winch used to lift sheep) 15  *  1 Jul 2006
Weigh bars, weigh indicators and weigh platforms 10  *  1 Jul 2006
Yards, races, leadup systems and loading ramps:      
     Permanent type 40  *  1 Jul 2006
     Portable type 25  *  1 Jul 2006
Woolshed assets:      
     Grinding machine for sharpening cutters 30  *  1 Jul 2006
     Shearing machines 30  *  1 Jul 2006
     Shearing or crutching handpieces 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Wool bale movers 10  *  1 Jul 2006
     Woolpresses 20  *  1 Jul 2006
     Woolsheds and shearing sheds 50  *  1 Jul 2006
     Wool tables, steel type 20  *  1 Jul 2006

[7] Table A, industry category MANUFACTURING (11110 to 25990), sub-category Printing (16110)

Omit

Flexographic printing assets:      
    Printing machines incorporating electronic memory units 10     1 Jan 2001

[8] Table A, industry category MANUFACTURING (11110 to 25990), sub-category Printing (16110)

After

Commercial printing assets:      
    Digital printing assets (including flatbed digital printers, ink based thermal imaging printers, ink jet printers, spray jet digital printers and toner based printers) 5  *  1 Jan 2006

Insert

     Flexographic printing assets:      
         Ancillary assets:      
             Anilox roll cleaning machines 15  *  1 Jul 2006
             Anilox trolley tugs 10  *  1 Jul 2006
             Ink dispensing systems 10  *  1 Jul 2006
             Sleeves 2  *  1 Jul 2006
             Sleeve mounting machines 10  *  1 Jul 2006
         Printing assets:      
             Die cutters, flexo/folder/gluers (see Pulp, paper and converted paper product manufacturing (15100 to 15290), Box and carton making converting assets)      
             Presses (including mid web, narrow web, very wide web and wide web flexographic presses) 121/2  *  1 Jul 2006

[9] Table A, industry category MANUFACTURING (11110 to 25990), sub-category Printing (16110)

Omit

    Quality control assets (including densitometers, plate readers and spectrophotometers) 5  *  1 Jan 2006

Substitute

     Quality control assets:      
         Automatic web inspection systems 6  *  1 Jul 2006
         Gas Chromatograph ('GC') testers 8  *  1 Jul 2006
         Others (including densitometers, plate readers and spectrophotometers) 5  *  1 Jul 2006

[10] Table A, industry category WHOLESALE TRADE (33110 to 38000)

Insert

Wool wholesaling
(33110)
Wool presses 20  *  1 Jul 2006



19 June 2006

BRUCE WILLIAM QUIGLEY,
First Assistant Commissioner


Registration Number: F2006L01903

Registration Date: 21 June 2006

Related Explanatory Statements:

Effective Life 2006/3 - Explanatory statement